Events:
August 15, 2013,
Film

The massive Simenon oeuvre inspired its share of film adaptations. The dozen here selected are largely French, but also include Hungarian master Béla Tarr, and Phil Karlson’s first-rate noir, The Brothers Rico.

The massive Simenon oeuvre inspired its share of film adaptations. The dozen here selected are largely French, but also include Hungarian master Béla Tarr, and Phil Karlson’s first-rate noir, The Brothers Rico.

Experimental filmmaker Jem Cohen is known mainly for his unconventional documentaries, and his new film is equally difficult to characterize—neither a city symphony nor a love story nor a movie about Breugel, but a serenely eccentric way of looking.